He could be loving, one time telling the family while driving in the mountains that his whole life was in the car.
Her father would calm her down, sometimes brushing her hair and making her feel that he would protect her from anything. She developed an eating disorder, and her chest started tightening because of a growing anxiety. “And a tiny bit raunchy.”Ĭoming back to the United States at age 12, Peyton struggled to make friends and adjust to American middle school. They even once went to a Thai drag show, all of them, including Peyton, who was 10 or 11 at the time. His six-figure salary had allowed them to eat their way through Thailand and travel to the Malaysian islands. Peyton and her family had moved back to Texas in 2016 after four years in Malaysia, where her father had worked as a consultant in the oil industry. 6 (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post) The road to Jan. jail in support of those held there in connection with Jan. Nicole Reffitt, right, the wife of Guy Reffitt, at a vigil March 29 at the D.C. After her father’s trial, she had read “Mending America’s Political Divide,” a book self-published by a neuroscientist seeking to explain and resolve political tribalism. She was still forming her identity and political beliefs. I’m the only one that can.”īefore the conversation in May, Peyton had started meditating to better control her anxiety. He says that although he does not regret going to the Capitol that day, he worries about Peyton. “I am to blame,” Guy said in a recent interview from the Fannin County jail in Bonham, Tex., where he is being temporarily held. Peyton missed cracking jokes with her family while eating their mother’s special chicken curry and watching K-pop YouTube videos in their living room. The four Reffitts had rarely seen one another since Guy was sentenced in August 2022 to seven years in prison.
6 attack, during which police deployed tear gas, shows Guy Reffitt in a helmet and rinsing his eyes. What had once been political disagreements had become questions about loyalty, truth and patriotism.Īn image from video of the Jan. “It’s not that I’m proud of it, or I’m so happy about it,” Jackson said.Īfter rioters stormed the Capitol, relatives and friends who disagreed with their actions faced a difficult choice: Should they turn their loved ones over to authorities? Could they continue to have relationships with people accused of trying to interfere with the peaceful transition of power? Divisions that had been growing since the election of Donald Trump to the presidency were torn even wider in living rooms and family group chats across the country.Įver since, families have been having or avoiding conversations like the Reffitts were having on that May afternoon. “Me, Sarah and Mom just felt a lack of empathy on our part from you afterwards,” Peyton said to Jackson as their mother and sister nodded. Her brother was interviewed on CNN the next week, and it was then she found out that he had tipped off the authorities. 16, 2021, the FBI raided their house and arrested her father, Guy Reffitt, on charges of obstruction of justice and unlawful trespassing related to Jan. Peyton put down the journal filled with paragraphs of what she hoped to say today. Listen in as they try to work through the challenges unique to this family’s story, which is complicated but recognizable to so many whose beliefs are different from those of their loved ones. In an episode of “Post Reports,” we take you inside the Reffitt family’s attempt to reconcile.
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